THOUGH it has been more than a year since Douglas Ngumi was released from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, yesterday the Kenyan national was triggered into emotional distress whenever his lawyer mentioned how long – six and a half years – he had spent in the facility despite being ordered to be deported.
Through occasional sobs Mr Ngumi, 47, testified about how he was tied to a table and beaten for hours with a PVC pipe, teargassed during raids by immigration and defence force officers and later detained in the Princess Margaret Hospital for six months because of the “full-blown” tuberculosis he contracted during lockup.
THOUGH it has been more than a year since Douglas Ngumi was released from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, yesterday the Kenyan national was triggered into emotional distress whenever his lawyer mentioned how long – six and a half years – he had spent in the facility despite being ordered to be deported.
Through occasional sobs Mr Ngumi, 47, testified about how he was tied to a table and beaten for hours with a PVC pipe, teargassed during raids by immigration and defence force officers and later detained in the Princess Margaret Hospital for six months because of the “full-blown” tuberculosis he contracted during lockup.
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